Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for an independent review of the unrest in Brooklyn on Friday evening as protests nationwide continue over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
"Review all the facts, review the police procedures, review the crowd's actions, give us an independent review," Cuomo said during his daily briefing on Saturday morning, held in Brooklyn. "People do deserve answers and people do deserve accountability."
The nationwide protests and demonstrations against police brutality engulfed cities around the country that is already in the midst of a nearly three-month-old pandemic crisis.
Two state lawmakers were involved in protests in New York City, Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson, Democrats who represents the borough in Albany.
"I was pepper sprayed and handcuffed tonight along with @YourFavoriteASW," Myrie tweeted, using Richardson's Twitter handle. "We came in solidarity and to keep the peace. We are still processing what happened."
Cuomo said he stood with peaceful protesters, but also condemend violence and property destruction.
"Violence is not the answer," Cuomo said. "It never is the answer. As a matter of fact it's counterproductive."
The protests and unrest highlight simmering racial injustice and inequality were held against the backdrop of a nation facing a public health and economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Cuomo drew a link between policing's impact on the black community and how the coronavirus pandemic has been disportionately fatal for people of color in the United States.
"We tend to look at these situations as individual incidents," Cuomo said. "They are not individual episodes."
Hospitalizations continued a weeks-long decline in New York. Sixty-seven people have died in the last 24 hours from the virus, the same as the prior day, but also representative of a decrease as the economy in New York begins to gradually reopen.
Cuomo said he would sign legislation providing death benefits for pandemic workers.
And he said he would sign a bill repealing a provision known as 50a that prohibits the release of disciplinary records for police officers, a long-sought goal for criminal justice advocates.
"I would sign a bill today that repeals 50a," Cuomo said. "I would sign it today."
But at the same time, Cuomo cast doubt on whether the regulation truly blocked the release of the records.
"I do not believe 50a -- that 50a as an existing law -- prohbits the disclosure," he said. "I think local elected officials across the state could release disciplinary records even with the existing 50a law if they wanted to."
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